by admin | Jul 9, 2009 | General news
Yesterday evening saw team members at Wards Reservoir, Belmont, known locally as the Blue Lagoon, carrying out a series of water search and rescue scenerios. At the conclusion of the exercise, with kit being put out to dry at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, we...
by admin | Jul 9, 2009 | General news
This evening at our quarterly Greater Manchester Emergency Services Liaison meeting between MRTs working in Greater Manchester, mainly Bolton MRT, Rossendale and Pendle MRT and Oldham MRT and GMP, NWAS and GMFRS, we learnt of an excellent article on the three...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | General news
On Monday evening this week, the 6th July, 18 team members enjoyed a unique evening training experience courtesey of chill factore. chill factore, Trafford Way, Trafford Quays Leisure Village, Manchester, is the UK’s longest real snow indoor ski &...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | Donations, General news
On the evening of Thursday 4th June this summer, we provided Standby Rescue Cover for the Hendersons End Fell Race on the moorland of Rivington Moor and Winter Hill, organised by Lostock Athletics Club. Today the team received a very generous donation of £200.00...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | Donations, General news
As reported on our website in an #article#1995#article dated 8th June 2008#, former team member David Sarti, in his capacity as President of the British Precast Concrete Foundation, nominated Bolton MRT as their charity for the year. At the time, the donation from the...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | General news
Tonight the team welcomed two persons interested in joining the team, Julie Holden and Christiaan Allen, following on from them meeting us at the Farnworth Fire Station open day in late June, and then both going on to complete the online membership application form....
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | General news
At 10.30 hours this morning team call out members Chris Tennant and Elaine Gilliland attended a coffee morning held at the residence of husband and wife, Steve and Dorothy Ransom. Back in January the team came to the aid of Mrs Roma Clough, who had fallen causing a...
by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | Donations, General news
Tonight the team is grateful to accept a £20.00 donation from Mr. David Murphy from Horwich, the son of Mrs. Win Murphy, whom the team assisted during its standby rescue cover at the Horwich Carnival on June 21st 2009. In a letter accompanying the donation,...
by admin | Jul 7, 2009 | General news
Tonight the team hosted a visit by the 25th Bolton South (Lostock) Cub Scout Pack, for a lecture and kit demonstration on the workings of the team and hillwalking safety in general. 27 Cub Scouts, 3 Explorer Scouts and 2 Cub Scout Leaders were present tonight and were...
by admin | Jul 7, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 21:49 this evening, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) who were requesting assistance at an incident in the Clifton Green area of Swinton. A 999 call received less than 5 minutes earlier had reported that a man had apparently slipped and fallen several metres...
